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How to Make User Acquisition Practically Free with Lambda School (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. There’s a little bit of work to do still, but you know, tonight the title of my talk is how to make user acquisition practically free. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace. You had town car services before.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. Customer acquisition. But also generally pretty high CAC, customer acquisition costs. Or maybe ARR, depending on your model.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Awesome.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Invest in your development internally and externally. Invest in your cross-functional partners. Anne is a principal analyst in the Sales Operations Research Service at Forrester.

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